Greenville County Animal Care is building a No-Kill community and we need your help! What does "No-Kill" mean? It means that every healthy and treatable animal is saved. Any agency or organization can call itself "No-Kill" simply by limiting the animals that can enter their facility, but building and sustaining a No-Kill community in Greenville County means that the entire community and its animal welfare organizations take an equal share in helping all of Greenville County's homeless pets find homes.

Working hand in hand with our truly wonderful community, we are aggressively moving forward with building life-saving outcomes and reducing the number of dogs and cats having to enter into animal shelter organizations. Here is how we are doing it, and how you can help!

Animal Care makes adoption easy and affordable. All animals can be adopted for $35 all the time.
This price includes spay and neuter, microchip and registration, vaccines, de-wormer, flea treatment,
testing and more.

• Animal Enrichment: Through the Dogs Playing for Life program, cat
play enclosures, and interactive toys for shelter pets and more, our animals are happier and less
stressed. This not only improves their quality of life while staying in an animal shelter awaiting
a home, it also means our calm, satisfied animals are more appealing to visitors and they are adopted
more quickly.

• Special Promotions: Animal Care frequently offers adoption specials,
often during the times of year when the shelter has an influx of animals entering the facility.

• Off-Site Adoption Events: Bringing the animals to all areas of
Greenville County, giving them a higher amount of exposure to adopters.

• Free Pets for Vets: As a service to our veterans, all adoptions are
free with a military ID.

Operating under the guidelines of the Trap-Neuter-Return method, which is the only proven
way to effectively and humanely reduce cat overpopulation, the Community Cat Diversion program
offers citizens of Greenville County access to free spay and neuter services for cats that
live outdoors and are "free roaming".

• Lost & Found: Animal Care's aggressive
lost and found program uses multiple platforms to help reunite owners with their pets before they
end up in an animal shelter.

• Microchipping: We microchip each animal
that walks through our doors, ensuring adopted animals will be reunited with their owners as quickly
as possible. Microchips are available to the public for only $10.

Animal Care offers low-cost spay and neuter services to the general public and proactively
addresses areas of our community with the highest amount of pet overpopulation through targeted
spay and neuter options.

• Low-Cost Walk-In Vaccine Clinics:
Offered every Tuesday at 5 pm, pet owners can get routine vaccinations, testing and flea and
heartworm preventatives conveniently and at a low cost.

Surrender Prevention:

Animal Care exhausts all possible options to keep pets in their homes.

• Get Pet Help: A one-stop web page with
advice on pet issues from behavior problems to life changes.

• Counseling: Professional counselors work with pet owners to
make sure all possible resources have been exhausted before resorting to animal surrender.

• Pet Food Bank: When residents fall on hard times, the pet food
bank helps pet and owner stay together during their temporary time of financial hardship.

• Medical Assistance: (future program) When an unexpected medical
cost arises, owners can apply for assistance if they qualify.

Greenville County Animal Care is a key resource center for the No Kill South Carolina initiative that
aims to reduce and eventually eliminate euthanasia in healthy and treatable companion animals in our state.